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EP 131: Science & Tech - Hunting Clothing at Sitka

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode (131) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio Randy invites John Barlow of Sitka Gear to do a remote podcast about new Sitka Gear, the technology and science behind their innovations, testing of new products, balancing costs, weight and performance, failure is not an option, proprietary fabrics and insulation, systems versus stand alone items, designs with purpose, nothing by accident, new lightweight down products, Sitka's new optics harness, modularity of accessories, attention to what people use, with a huge apology for a slow internet connection that compromised the sound quality of this podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Randy Newberg here. It is what is the date? April, I think 13th, something like that.

0:09.2

Hey, how? Getting ready to do another episode of Loop Old Hunt Talk Radio.

0:15.4

This is with my buddy John Barclow from SICKA, the mad scientist, the guy who knows so much about

0:22.0

technical clothing, gear, fanatic hunter himself, just wonderful, wonderful guy. We're having to do this

0:32.8

with where they call it shelter and place rules. So we're trying our best to get everything done,

0:42.0

be a long distance and be a technology. So hopefully when I click the button after all this,

0:48.8

it'll roll in and be smoothless and seemless and smooth. Is that the way? Not smoothless.

0:59.2

Anyhow, I hope you're all doing well. I know it's a crazy unsettling time and don't know that we've

1:09.8

ever seen times like this, but I'm appreciative of all you who listen to our podcasts.

1:16.0

I'm very appreciative of anyone who's out there on the front lines of all this and all the good

1:26.4

behavior if you want to call it. They're saying that they did not expect the Americans to be as good

1:33.6

at following the recommendations as they are and maybe that's going to be the benefit of

1:41.8

where everyone's paying a financial price for it, but hopefully it all smooths out and the

1:49.6

consequences are less than the otherwise would have because everybody chipped in and did their part.

1:56.0

Anyhow, Lupold, they are who make this podcast possible.

2:03.0

Great company does so much for conservation, for access, for all the things we love.

2:10.8

Great products. If it's got a gold ring on it, like most of the things you would see

2:16.2

out over at Lupold, Rifles, Goaps, and even now I wear comes with this gold ring on it.

2:23.9

They've got this new performance I wear over there. If it's got that gold ring, you know that it

2:29.2

came from Beaverton, Oregon. So go to lupold.com and see what they got.

2:37.8

Hopefully when you go to your dealer, you'll support your local dealer and you'll support

2:43.3

lupold because when you do that, you're supporting a lot of American jobs and you're getting amazing

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